I am currently not able to find a good technique for extracting hydrogen from water. I am using a car battery and copper wires but i cant find a way to get the hydrogen-oxygen mixture into a container (trying to get it into a balloon to explode). If anyone has an idea, a diagram would be helpful, please present it.
2007-03-10 13:18:18 · 5 answers · asked by ihavquestons 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
If you're actually collecting Hydrogen, then you are going to need to PUMP it into the balloon. That's as far as I'll go because you may actually hurt yourself or burn something down trying to light this thing. I used to do the same thing w/ Acetylene,.. (long time ago). It was (a little) safer, but I STILL lost my eyebrows on a couple of occasions.
ALSO,.. you'll find that you've gone to a hell of alot of work just for the flash that you'll get by doing this.
2007-03-10 13:27:09 · answer #1 · answered by RockHanger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could use a solution of sulfuric acid, fill a jar with it, and invert the jar in a plastic tray so that the jar is filled with acid solution. Then stick a couple of electrodes under the edge of the jar, and apply power. You should get a stream of bubbles from each electrode, and the gases will mix at the top of the jar. The tricky part is going to be to inflate a balloon with this; no convenient way comes to mind. Be careful of the explosion hazard while working with this.
2007-03-10 13:28:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we did this years ago at school, we put an upside down plastic funnel over each electrode and let the oxygen and hydrogen bubble of the electrodes and into the funnels.We then had rubber hose on each funnel up which the gas escaped into a large five gallon plastic drum which was balanced spout down on a tripod. Once we had filled the container, we withdrew to a safe distance and using a long pole with a lighted splint on the end, we placed the splint into the mouth of the drum.....BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and airbourne twenty feet.....much to the amusement of us kids and to the displeasure of the chemistry head at our school, who dragged our teacher into his office for a right rollicking!!
2007-03-10 13:32:10 · answer #3 · answered by Ian W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are risking your life to extrct hydrogen without ptoer tools. Hydron is a cery explosive gas and you may end up blowing yourself off
2007-03-10 13:46:20 · answer #4 · answered by gangico 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
... Your not supposed to use copper...
Use steel. This process takes REALLY long. took 3 hours just to fill half a test tube with hydrogen.
2007-03-10 13:27:14 · answer #5 · answered by ►黄人◄ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋